The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-10-28

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day, but sulked behind the heavy clouds.
There was light rain during the whole
day, and mud again rules.
Sawyer's is now headquarters for a
number of our young friends who are
attracted together by the sentiment:
"Misery loves company"
If so soon they were to De done for.
What in thunder was it all begun for.
Hon. Thos. D. Johnston will be present
at Rutherford court next week. He
would like to be at Graham court also,
but the two occur the same week; and
for good reasons, goes to Rutherford.
Every man we meet who has sold
tobacco in Asheville so far is well pleas
ed with the prices obtained. Our ware
housemen and buyers are determined
that this market shall maintain its pre-
eminence. All of which helps our
farmers.
Mr.. James Colvin, of Buncombe, now
associated with Mr.. Murdock in some
large contracts on the Three C.'e, and
Georgia, Can olina and Northern railroads,
in South Carolina. is visiting his rany
friends this week. He -ays work 10 be-
ing rapidly pushed. and these will GER
tainly be important lines VIXEN completed.
A good deal of tobacco came in yester-
day by wagons. We noticed on the
foor of the Farmers warehouse-the
only one we visited on account of the
rain and mud-tbat th 1rSiles showed
much higher general rag1 of quality
than we have ever sdh here before.
But there was some SO rad that we Won
dered how it ever found its WY to mar
ket Don't let the owner complain of the
market when he finds the small price
bid for it.
The teleGraphic dispatches inform us ::
Marine Private Coleman has been SEN
fenced by court martial to ten days
solitary confinement for "disrespectful
language in refusing to take pills pre-
scribed by the navy physiciE H."
He refused to take the medicine and
got weil-and for getting we'll without the
aid of the esculapius, heis punished for it.
He might have taken the pills and then
died. He may have been wise in prefer
ing life and imprisonment 20 pills and
death.
Capt C. NJ. McNoud reached home
from an extensive business trip in the
North, Wednesday. He reports pros
poets for Il important enterprises in
AsheviIIe /very GOOD.
Capt. Breese, who with Capt. McLoud
attended the Bankers Convention at
Pittsburg, returned day or two since.
Both gentlemen were highly pleased with
their trip. They visited many of the
i'm mense industrial enterprises of Pitts.
burg, and say they were simply immense.
The public debt of the city and county
is S17, 100000, and the people said they
did not mind it, as it was with borrowed
money they built up their immense in.
dustr:es, and were thus enabled to carry
their debt-only paying interest-with-
out burden. Their annual output is over
S500.000,000.
we are sorry that the colored people
had weather so bad for their Fair. They
had expected $4,000. That was rather
extravagant calculation, but clear weather
would have given large attendance. We
are deeply and sincerely interested in
the Industrial progress of the race, and
have more than once expressed pleasure
and astonishment at the fine illustration
of progress made in their annual Fairs,
much more pleased at that than at their
political yassalsge. They seem Lound
hand and foot to the Republican party,
pretended friends, but faiihless, using the
negro for Its own purposes, making un-
fair distribution of office and houors. and
barring the way to real progress which
will only come with liberation of ideas
and action.
The Fair. thanks possibly 20 the rain,
escaped The mischieVous infiction of
John Sherman and William Malone.
These would have made mischief, and
turned an industrial occasion to one OF